Luminous Animals. A group show for work by artists from Nashville’s Zeitgeist Gallery. Through July 29. Whitespace Gallery.

MUSIC

Texas Outlaws Invasion: A Tribute to Waylon, Willie and the Boys. A lineup of bands and singer-songwriters pays tribute to the music of Willie Nelson and Waylon Jennings. July 13 at 8 p.m. Smith’s Olde Bar.

THEATER

Annie Get Your Gun. Dunwoody’s Stage Door Players present a new production of Irving Berlin’s classic musical based on the life of sharpshooter Annie Oakley. July 14–August 6. Stage Door.

Atlanta PodPlays. Found Stages Theatre presents a series of audio plays that viewers listen to on headphones as they walk through the Little Five Points neighborhood. July 15 at 5 p.m. Findley Plaza, Little Five Points.

BOOKS

Peter Eisner, MacArthur’s Spies. The author discusses his new work of history about three soldiers who refused to surrender during World War II by hiding in the Luzon hills above Bataan and Manila for more than two years. July 13 at 8 p.m. Atlanta History Center.

DANCE

the room for tender choreographies. Lauri Stallings of glo presents her work as one of MOCA-GA’s Working Artists with dancers performing during the museum’s opening hours throughout the exhibition. July 15–August 1. Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia.

Moka. A grieving woman pursues a couple whom she suspects of killing her son in Frédéric Mermoud’s 2016 Franco-Swiss psychological thriller based on the novel by Tatiana de Rosnay. Opens July 14. Landmark Midtown Art Cinema.

Andrew Alexander is an Atlanta-based arts journalist who covers theater, visual art, dance, music, books, fashion, film and opera. He has twice been voted "Atlanta’s Best Critic" by readers of Atlanta alt-weekly Creative Loafing in the publication’s annual "Best of Atlanta" issue, and local arts website Burnaway has dubbed him “Atlanta’s favorite critic.” He was a 2015 Fellow at the National Critics Institute at the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center in Waterford, Connecticut, and in 2014 he was selected to participate in the Arts Writing Workshop, a partnership between the International Art Critics Association and the Creative Capital-Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant Program, for a mentorship with renowned Wall Street Journal art critic Peter Plagens. He can’t dance, but he performed a supernumerary role in Nick Cave’s 2015 performance work "Rise Up, Atlanta," and soon after he curated and DJ-ed the dance performance event Honey, You Know Where to Find Me presented by the Lucky Penny in June of 2015. He loves art, travel, bourbon and old records.